Sharif Aydarus Sharif Ali al-Nudari or short Sharif Aydarus (–1960) was a scholar of

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ic and Somali history and a

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leader..

History

He was born in the city of

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in the

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1311 AH () and belonged to the coastal Reer Hamar confederation and the Asharaf clan from the Shingani district. He studied the

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in the coastal cities of

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and Lamu. In 1914, he came back to Mogadishu in order to teach and to preach at the Shingani Mosque. He collected

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and used them while teaching Somali history to his students. Eventually all his work and manuscripts were assembled and published in the year 1955 in

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by the Trusteeship Administration as ('The Attainment of Hopes regarding the History of Somalia'). Sharif Aydarus founded the

Somali party called ''al-Raabitah al-Islamiyyah''. He was active in the

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of Islam, collaborating with various leaders of ''

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s'' (religious Sufi orders) towards this end. He also served as head of the Mogadishu branch of the pan-Islamic party called ''al-Mu’tamar al-Islami'' ('Organization of Islamic Conference') until he died in 1960..

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharif_Aydarus 1893 births 1960 deaths Historians of Islam